Mitali Saran: Birdiness, birditude, and birdicity

Turns out ornithology isn't for the birds

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I love nature, but never had much time for birds. They’re skittish, they poop all over the place, and they’re fiddly to eat. Plus they conduct jihad from across the the LoC and have to be locked up, x-rayed, and put on suicide watch, and we really don’t need more than one kind of bipedal anti-national. Anyway, my birdwatching experience has been minimal, and I have spent one hundred percent of it going “Where? Where?” because I never remember to carry binoculars. As far as birdiness is concerned, I’d rather watch paint dry.
This week I lived out one of ...

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Mitali Saran: Birdiness, birditude, and birdicity

Turns out ornithology isn't for the birds

Turns out ornithology isn't for the birdsI love nature, but never had much time for birds. They’re skittish, they poop all over the place, and they’re fiddly to eat. Plus they conduct jihad from across the the LoC and have to be locked up, x-rayed, and put on suicide watch, and we really don’t need more than one kind of bipedal anti-national. Anyway, my birdwatching experience has been minimal, and I have spent one hundred percent of it going “Where? Where?” because I never remember to carry binoculars. As far as birdiness is concerned, I’d rather watch paint dry.
This week I lived out one of ...

Mitali Saran: Birdiness, birditude, and birdicity

Turns out ornithology isn't for the birds

I love nature, but never had much time for birds. They’re skittish, they poop all over the place, and they’re fiddly to eat. Plus they conduct jihad from across the the LoC and have to be locked up, x-rayed, and put on suicide watch, and we really don’t need more than one kind of bipedal anti-national. Anyway, my birdwatching experience has been minimal, and I have spent one hundred percent of it going “Where? Where?” because I never remember to carry binoculars. As far as birdiness is concerned, I’d rather watch paint dry.
This week I lived out one of ...